September 19, 2016: Revisiting the lessons of the Battle of Seattle and its aftermath, Walden BelloI had many lessons from the Battle of Seattle, and one of them is that policewomen can deal it out as good as any policeman. I got beaten up, badly but obviously not fatally by one of Seattle’s Best. Yesterday, I decided go down memory lane and visit the scene of the crime. I remember seeing Medea Benjamin of Code Pink being treated fairly roughly and I rushed forward to try to get the police to stop it.

May 27, 2016: We can dream, or we can organize, Systemic DisorderThe swift rise, and swift crumbling, of the Occupy movement brings to the surface the question of organization. Demonstrating our anger, and doing so with thousands of others in the streets, gives us energy and brings issues to wider audiences. Yes spontaneity, as necessary as it is, is far from sufficient in itself. For all the weeks and sometimes months that Occupy encampments lasted, little in the way of lasting organization was created.

January 7, 2016: Undoing the Politics of Powerlessness, Yotam MaromI'm in a warmly lit apartment on the Lower East Side. It’s a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. What a fucking whirlwind it’s been. Two months ago I had just moved into my parents’ basement, feeling deflated after the end of Bloombergville (a two-week street occupation outside city hall to try to stop the massive budget cuts of that same year), convinced this country wasn’t ready for movement.

June 12, 2015: The Triumph of Occupy Wall StreetThe movement that began in Zuccotti Park didn't disappear—it just splintered and regrouped around a variety of focused causes. On her first campaign stop in Iowa in April, Hillary Clinton struck a decisively populist tone, declaring that “the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top.” Later, she sharpened her rhetoric on income inequality by comparing the salaries of America’s richest hedge fund managers with kindergarten teachers.

November 6, 2013, Bullet No. #895: After the Evictions: The U.S. Occupy Movement Struggling at the Front Lines of the Crisis, Robert OgmanThree years after the financial meltdown of 2008, the U.S. Occupy movement opened the possibility for a left regroupment against resurgent neoliberalism. Yet the forceful eviction from the squares just two months after the movement emerged, cut short the development of such a constituting power, of a historic bloc of the 99%. Suddenly dispossessed of the "spatial centers of its hegemonic apparatus," it was robbed of its basis for "(counter)hegemonic practices and functions."

January 30, 2013: In 'Occupy,' Well-Educated Professionals Far Outnumbered JoblessMore than a third of the people who participated in Occupy Wall Street protests in New York lived in households with annual incomes of $100,000 or more, according to a study by sociologists at the City University of New York, and more than two-thirds had professional jobs.

December 31, 2012: FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy MonitoringFBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF's Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did 'not condone the use of violence' at occupy protests.

December 27, 2012: Occupy Homes, One Year On And Growing Daily'We are about to take this house over, okay?' shouted Reneka Wheeler, speaking slowly and emphasizing each word as she stood in front of a vacant house in southwest Atlanta two weeks ago. It wasn't really a question; the home had already been cleaned up and secured, and the only thing left to do was turn the key.

December 15, 2012: Mapping the Left, Ethan YoungOccupy Wall Street arose like a force of nature over the landscape of the U.S. Left. Only a year after its birth, there are hardly any left institutions or tendencies that it has not in some way influenced. The inclination, then, may be to allow its influence to color our memories of the U.S. Left as it stood pre-September 2011. To be sure, it was a barren landscape. The U.S. Left has no central political vehicle and only a very small and tenuous hold within the Democratic Party.

November 14, 2012: Rolling where?Rolling Jubilee (RJ) has certainly gotten a lot of attention in the few days since it was launched. An initiative of Strike Debt!, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street. Anything that attracts attention to the burden of debt and the potential of liberation from it is admirable. But it will not surprise regular readers to learn that I've got some serious reservations about the project.

September 20, 2012: The Black Bloc Doth Protest Too MuchIt finally happened. After months of anarchists howling over journalist Chris Hedges's controversial article 'The Cancer Within Occupy,' the author debated the subject of non-violence and the diversity of tactics in the Occupy Wall Street movement with Brian Traven, representing CrimethInc, an anarchist group sympathetic to the Black Bloc tactics Hedges denounced in the article.

September 18, 2012: Occupy Infiltrates Financial DistrictThat's what all the mainstream outlets are saying this week, and they're right in one way. What started as a couple hundred people in a park with no plan has turned into a decentralized, distributed network of activists, affinity groups, organizations and organizers, working on everything from free education to fracking.

September 17, 2012: After 1 Year, OWS Gives Voice to ResistanceThe Occupy Wall Street movement is largely credited for reframing the national dialogue on economic inequality and popularizing the phrase, 'We are the 99 percent.'

August 12, 2012: The Significance of OccupyThe Occupy Movement, the first such broad, national, multi-issue, mass movement in forty years, represented a test for the revolutionary socialist left in several senses. First, would the left recognize its important and immediately move to become an active part of it and work within it to help provide leadership?

August 5, 2012: Decolonizing the Occupy MovementWhen the Great Recession sank its fangs into the veins of this country on December 2007, for the first time, millions of white people woke to a different world.

August 3, 2012: Oakland, the Last Refuge of Radical AmericaThe Anti-Capitalist Brigade started gathering early on May Day at Oakland's Snow Park. There was free coffee, oatmeal, doughnuts, fliers with the day's agenda and plenty of pot.

July 23, 2012: Economics for the 99% Booklet, Center for Popular EconomicsCPE supports and stands with the Occupy movement. We have produced this resource which we hope will be useful for activists who are fighting for an economy for the 99% -- one that is just and sustainable. This booklet is intended for distribution to activists in the Occupy movement. It is designed to serve as a resource for anyone working in any of hundreds of ways in that movement: organizing, writing, teaching, discussing with neighbors, protesting to build a more just and sustainable economic system.

June 19, 2012: Another Occupy Is Possible - and NecessaryAt the height of Occupy Wall Street's efflorescence, when the enragés who took up residence in Zuccotti Park succeeded in raising the battle standard of the 99% for the entire world to see, I sat down for an interview with Frances Fox Piven to help make sense of what was unfolding before us. Although I thought I knew more than my fair share about the theory and practice of social movements in the U.S., as a child of the End of History, I had never really been part of one.

June 10, 2012: The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on OrganisationMoving beyond the conceptual polarisation of tight-knit vanguardist parties and loose-tie virtual networks, Rodrigo Nunes sifts the residue of last year's wave of revolts to produce a more nuanced picture of organisational dynamics in the age of Web 2.0.

May 18, 2012: The whole world will be watching Chicago anti-NATO protestsThis weekend, tens of thousands are expected to converge on Chicago to protest against a summit of NATO leaders. Originally, the G8 was also going to meet in Chicago this week, but that gathering of heads of the world's most powerful governments was moved to Camp David.

May 11, 2012: Occupy Keeps Up the MomentumIf you've been waiting for the right event to get plugged into Occupy, your options are plentiful this week. Don't wait any longer. Rise up!

May 5, 2012: Fault Lines : History of an occupationFault Lines tells the definitive history of Occupy Wall Street from its early days through the movement's rapid spread up to the brutal crackdown by state authorities.

May 4, 2012: Women: Occupy the LeftWomen's rights have always been a bit of an add-on for the left. At this spring's Left Forum, only fifteen of 440 panels touched on any feminist issue, broadly understood.

May 1, 2012: The Gender of Occupy Wall StreetThe OWS movement took place after several years of absence of cohesive nationwide movements, and amidst an extreme fragmentation of struggles.

April 30, 2012: Urban revolution is comingOccupy may mark the beginning of a new era of city-based uprisings. An expert explains why -- and how.

April 27, 2012: MELT-IN on a Warmer PlanetOccupy Wall Street activists held vibrant actions in New York City to reclaim Earth Day from the corporate greenwashers.

April 26, 2012: When will labor draw a line?The Occupy movement's alliance with labor showed the potential support for a fightback, but unions are still in retreat.

April 25, 2012: May 1st Student WalkoutJoin us on May 1st as we stand in solidarity with the Occupy movement and workers everywhere.

April 24, 2012, Bullet No. #621: A "Fair" Protest in New York City?, Natalia TylimIf you ride the New York City subway system, then you've become accustomed to reading the signs in stations across the city that let riders know about service changes. Most often, there are delays, or you find that you must take a different line to get to where you need to go.

April 13, 2012, Bullet No. #616: Lenin and Occupy, Pham BinhMany socialists have cheered Lars Lih's demolition of the textbook interpretation of Lenin's work in Lenin Rediscovered without examining how many of our own preconceptions on the subject are now part of the same pile of rubble.

April 5, 2012: The 99 Percent SpringSince Occupy Wall Street emerged last September, debates over its impact have roiled both liberals and conservatives confused by the fact of a (successful yet) leaderless movement lacking concrete demands.

April 3, 2012: Successful Fare Strike - NY City Subway for freeOn March 28, before rush hour, teams of activists, many from Occupy Wall Street, in conjunction with rank and file workers from the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Amalgamated Transit Union, opened up more than 20 stations across the city for free entry.

March 29, 2012: The rich are different; they get richerOccupy Wall Street is not known for the precision of its economic analysis, but new research on income distribution in the United States shows that the group's sloganeering provides a stunningly accurate picture of the economy.

March 23, 2012: Understanding and Learning from Occupy TorontoFrom mid-October 2011 until its eviction in late November, Occupy Toronto attracted a lot of attention. Earlier this year, Adrie Naylor, Dave Vasey and Donya Ziaee, who were all active in Occupy Toronto, talked with New Socialist Webzine co-editor David Camfield about what happened, its significance and its lessons for people who want to build a new Left.

March 2, 2012: Evict Us, We MultiplyAt 9 a.m., as most of us clocked in to work for the 1%, occupiers in New York City clocked in to work for the 99% by assembling in Bryant Park to take action against the members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

March 1, 2012, Bullet No. #603: Factory Occupation Saves Jobs, Orlando SepulvedaA 12-hour occupation by workers at a Chicago factory on February 23 won an agreement that will save workers' jobs for at least three months so they can seek other ways to keep their plant open and producing. The factory on the northwest side of the city is the former Republic Windows and Doors plant, where union members occupied for a week in December 2008.

February 28, 2012: State of Corporate Power 2012Who are the global 1 per cent? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

February 24, 2012: Workers occupy factory in ChicagoWorkers with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America have occupied Serious Materials (formerly Republic Window & Door) in Chicago.

February 18, 2012: Occupy Toronto and Steelworker Flash MobThe flash mob of dozens of demonstrators, including more than 25 Occupy Toronto dancers and singers, showed up at the main Bank of Montreal branch at King and Bay to challenge BMO to help end the 27-month strike at Infinity Rubber.

February 16, 2012, Bullet No. #599: An 'Excess of Democracy'?, Hilary WainwrightThe ability of the Occupy movement to create platforms outside our closed political system to force open a debate on inequality, the taboo at the heart of the financial crisis, is impressive. It is a new source of political creativity from which we all have much to learn.

February 13, 2012: Occupy Movement Regroups, Preparing for Its Next PhaseThe ragtag Occupy Wall Street encampments that sprang up in scores of cities last fall, thrusting 'We are the 99 percent' into the vernacular, have largely been dismantled, with a new wave of crackdowns and evictions in the past week.

February 12, 2012: Updates from Syntagma square, AthensThousands of people on Amalias st. Police uses tear gas en masse trying to disperse the demonstrators who defend themselves with any means available.

February 8, 2012: Discussing the way forward for OccupyOur movement needs to use every opportunity to build resistance to the agenda of the 1 percent--whether that means bigger struggles or smaller ones.

February 8, 2012: Chris Hedges and the black blocYesterday Chris Hedges wrote an attack on the black bloc on Truthdig.com that has gone 'viral' in the sense that the Internet is all abuzz about it. Resonating with the sickness metaphor...

February 8, 2012: Capitalist Law for Capitalists, Harry GlasbeekThe City of Toronto went to court to ask a judge to order the occupiers of St. James Park to remove their tents and other structures that enabled them to maintain a highly visible and much-publicized presence in the park for 24 hours every day.

January 29, 2012: Occupy Talks: What Gravy Train?Austerity, Finance, and the Polarization of Wealth. Over the last several decades, inequality has been steadily increasing, with the 1% enjoying ever higher concentrations of wealth, while members of the 99% experience greater poverty. Presentations by: Jim Stanford, Nathan Okonta, Linda McQuaig and Sam Gindin.

January 28, 2012: Occupy Wall Street WestSan Francisco activists report on a day of action that drew out hundreds of activists in the Bay Area for labor solidarity and anti-foreclosure events.

January 19, 2012: Rebranded Occupy will take new message to SF streetsThe Occupy SF movement could come back with a bang Friday when more than 50 supporting groups and possibly thousands of protesters have plans to wreak havoc on banks in the Financial District. The protest is being billed by organizers as the largest San Francisco will have seen since demonstrations against the Iraq War in 2003.

January 10, 2012: Three Complaints About OWSWhat can we say about a movement whose first public action was successfully hijacked by the Workers World Party? A lot of things to be sure.

January 8, 2012: Last Occupy Camp Holds On In St. John'sThe final known Occupy camp in Canada remains open for business, as it were, in downtown St. John's, and the city has no plans to evict Occupy Newfoundland from its seaside perch.

January 7, 2012: Occupy Wall Street and Transformational StrategyThe beginning of the new year seems an appropriate time to reflect upon the progress, and potential, of what must surely rank as one of the most astonishing and encouraging developments of 2011: the emergence and rapid spread of the Occupy movement.

January 7, 2012: The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo FreemanDuring the years in which the women's liberation movement has been taking shape, a great emphasis has been placed on what are called leaderless, structureless groups as the main -- if not sole -- organizational form of the movement. The source of this idea was a natural reaction against the over-structured society in which most of us found ourselves.

January 5, 2012: A Movement Without Demands?, Marco Deseriis and Jodi DeanThe question of demands infused the initial weeks and months of Occupy Wall Street with the endless opening of desire. Nearly unbearable, the absence of demands concentrated interest, fear, expectation, and hope in the movement. What did they want? What could they want? Commentators have been nearly hysterical in their demand for demands.

January 1, 2012: 75 Years Ago Today, the First OccupyOn this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took over the facilities and occupied them for 44 days. My uncle was one of them.

December 23, 2011: Occupy Winnipeg comes to an endConservation officials have removed the last of the Occupy camp in Memorial Park on December 21, citing safety concerns.

December 20, 2011: Occupy and the tasks of socialists, Pham BinhOccupy is a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-merge the socialist and working-class movements and create a viable broad-based party of radicals, two prospects that have not been on the cards in the United States since the late 1960s and early 1970s.

December 16, 2011: Novotel Mic CheckSupporters of the Novotel Ottawa workers OCCUPIED the main restaurant and management had no choice but to shut down the restaurant and give the coffee for free. Supporters then gathered in the front of the hotel and marched and chanted "Solidarity Forever."

December 14, 2011: Time Person of the Year - the ProtesterNo one could have known that when a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in a public square, it would incite protests that would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. In 2011, protesters didn't just voice their complaints; they changed the world.

December 12, 2011: The ancestors of OccupyAs someone who has been substantially involved in Occupy Pittsburgh, and who has recently returned from London, where I was able to rally with sisters and brothers from the London Occupation (in the face of an enormous police confrontation), it is a genuine pleasure and honor for me to have an opportunity to speak with activists who are part of Occupy Boston.

December 7, 2011: #OccupyTTCA group of people from OccupyToronto paid their fare and rode the subway cars of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). They engaged with riders using the people's mic - about the state of the TTC and the city's budgetary cutbacks.

December 5, 2011: Claiming Division, Naming a WrongThe movement opened up by Occupy Wall Street is the most exciting event on the US political left since 1968. As in '68, the current movement extends globally, encompasses multiple grievances, and is being met by violent police responses.

November 28, 2011: Occupy movement inspires rise in U.S. campus activismViolent confrontations between police and protesters at two University of California campuses have drawn a new cadre of students into the Occupy Wall Street movement and unleashed what some historians call the biggest surge in campus activism since the 1960s.

November 27, 2011: Occupy group joins with Native AmericansAbout 30 Occupy Boston protesters traveled from their encampment in Boston's Financial District to join the National Day of Mourning here yesterday, lending their support to a Native American demonstration held each Thanksgiving.

Ye come here, gather 'round the stage
The time has come for us to voice our rage
Against the ones who've trapped us in a cage
To steal from us the value of our wage
From underneath the vestiture of law
The lobbyists at Washington do gnaw
At liberty, the bureaucrats guffaw
And until they are purged, we won't withdraw

November 27, 2011: Occupy With Aloha, MakanaMakana's performance for the World Leaders Dinner at APEC... dedicate this action to those who would speak truth to power but were not allowed the opportunity.

November 26, 2011: Brains behind Canadian Occupy movement disappointedProtesters hail it as a life-changing experience while pundits acknowledge it as a driving force in the national conversation, but the man who helped launch the Canadian incarnation of the 'Occupy' movement says his adopted home country didn't execute his vision the way he hoped.

November 23, 2011: Evictions and the (Re) Occupy Movement, Mike SkinnerPolice are forcibly evicting protestors from numerous Occupy Movement protest encampments throughout North America. On November 15th, here in Toronto, police delivered an eviction notice to protestors encamped in a downtown park that will become effective at midnight.

November 22, 2011: Coalition of resistanceCoalition of Resistance is a broad united national campaign against cuts and privatisation in our workplaces, community and welfare services, based on general agreement with the Founding Statement issued by Tony Benn in August 2010.

November 21, 2011: Occupy Toronto Eviction StatementWe have been occupying St. James Park for over a month. We have established a community of mutual respect, acceptance, and love. We have created a place where people can come in and discuss opinions, hardships and most importantly work together towards solutions. A place where people don't have to be afraid to speak their mind, where their voice is heard and respected.

November 19, 2011: Lessons of #Occupy: Don't agonise, organise!This quote that has become a bumper sticker, a popular slogan in the feminist movement, the title of many a speech, conference and newsletter is credited to the Afro-American woman civil rights activist Florence Rae Kennedy.

November 19, 2011: Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%, Justin PodurI have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%," but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." I agree that the 99% should struggle against "school segregation, colonization, redlining, and anti-immigrant attacks."

November 18, 2011: 7 Occupations That Changed US HistoryWith the spread of political occupations to all 50 states today, lessons can be gleaned from past occupations for a movement that shows no signs of going away.

November 18, 2011: GTWA and Occupy TO - Important Update and EventsOn Tuesday the Occupy Toronto camp was served with an eviction notice. Trade unions and social justice groups along with hundreds of individuals expressed their outrage and willingness to mobilize to defend the movement.

November 18, 2011: Occupy London takes over empty UBS bankOccupy London demonstrators have opened up a new front in their campaign against the banking industry and the government's response to the financial crisis by taking over a complex of buildings owned by a subsidiary of UBS bank just north of the City of London.

November 18, 2011, Bullet No. #571: Resisting Expropriation of the Occupy Movement, Matthew BrettThe occupy movement is currently being forcefully dismantled by police across North America and Europe. The pretext for these police interventions are health and safety concerns, but the reality is that public space is being re-occupied by the status quo.

November 17, 2011: Occupy bailout. Canadian banks got billions in helpCritics spend a lot of time telling Canadians that they should disregard the Occupy movement. They claim that the sins of Wall Street didn't happen here, so Canadians have no business making such a fuss.

November 16, 2011: Occupy Movement Research GuideThis guide is designed to help you consider the complicated question, what is the Occupy Movement all about? It is a work in progress, with a North American focus, and the authors welcome suggested additions.

November 16, 2011: Crackdowns reach epicenter of Wall Street protestsCrackdowns against the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country reached the epicenter of the movement Tuesday, when police rousted protesters from a Manhattan park and a judge ruled that their free speech rights do not extend to pitching a tent and setting up camp for months at a time.

November 16, 2011: The War on the Home FrontIt was a beautiful, sunlit fall morning when the patrol, many in camouflage jackets, no more than 40 of them in all, headed directly into enemy territory. Their ranks included one sailor in uniform, three women, and a small child named Viva in a stroller.

November 15, 2011, Bullet No. #569: You Can't Evict a Revolution, Pham BinhAt 1 a.m. the New York Police Department began clearing Liberty Plaza of the hundreds of occupiers who camp there every night. People were told to leave with their property or face arrest. About 100 or so refused to move. Some of them chained themselves to trees, others linked arms.

November 15, 2011: Standing up for Occupy Wall StreetSocialistWorker.org reports on New York City's assault on Occupy Wall Street last night--and activists' plan to respond to this attack on free speech.

November 15, 2011: Defend Occupy Toronto, Greater Toronto Workers' AssemblyMayor Rob Ford has given the notice of eviction to Occupy Toronto. We, the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, express both our unequivocal support for Occupy Toronto and our intention to mobilize our members, allies, and resources against any forced eviction and unprovoked arrest.

November 15, 2011: Harvard is under occupationOccupy Harvard has established an encampment in Harvard Yard--and activists plan to take up campus issues as well as broader ones.

November 15, 2011: Occupy comes to campusAlex Schmaus reports on the first day of Occupy Cal protests last week at UC Berkeley--and plans to step up the struggle with a student strike this week.

November 11, 2011: The unions weigh in for OccupyLee Sustar reports on the growing momentum for the November 17 labor/Occupy day of action -- and its potential for broadening the movement around the country.

November 10, 2011: After the Oakland General Strike, tactical debates emergeLast Wednesday, Nov. 2, Oakland saw perhaps the most massive and militant day of action of the Occupy movement so far. Subsequently, big debates have opened up in Oakland and within the Occupy movement, online, at General Assemblies, and amongst friends and family over the success of the strike and where the movement should go from here.

November 10, 2011: Police shut down Occupy London *The Indignants*Just before 1am Wednesday November 9th the London police department evicted the people of Occupy London. This video show the disregard for the homeless and private property by the city and it's police department.

November 9, 2011: A movement that's here to stayWith November 17 set as its next national day of action, the Occupy movement faces many challenges--but it has already defined a new era of resistance.

November 9, 2011: Debating our tactics in OaklandTodd Chretien reports from Oakland on what happened after the general strike last week--and describes an important debate among activists about tactics and strategy.

November 7, 2011: Security and Community at Occupy TorontoSecurity at Occupy Toronto has been an issue, mainly because the park is located in downtown Toronto and doesn't occupy in a vacuum. I spoke with Taylor Flook about how active occupiers are creating structures to deal with safety in the park.

November 5, 2011: Building a multiracial Occupy movement, Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorThe Occupy struggle needs to represent and involve all of the 99 percent--and that means putting issues affecting people of color at the center of our movement.

November 5, 2011: Occupy Wall Street: the wake-up call, Slavoj ZizekDon't fall in love with yourselves, with the nice time we are having here. Carnivals come cheap - the true test of their worth is what remains the day after, how our normal daily life will be changed. Fall in love with hard and patient work - we are the beginning, not the end.

November 3, 2011, Bullet No. #564: Organized Labour and the Occupations Movement, Samir SontiThe Occupy Wall Street phenomenon has achieved a stature and longevity unrivaled by recent demonstrations in the United States, and has understandably struck a chord with a wide range of people dismayed by the barbaric level of inequality that is the defining feature of contemporary American society.

November 2, 2011: We are all OaklandThe call for a general strike in Oakland to protest the savage police attack on Occupy protesters is linking the movement more closely with the organized working class.

November 2, 2011: Calls to action on November 2The brutal October 25 police attack on Occupy Oakland protesters that critically injured Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen has spurred anger locally and around the country--and a determination to resist the repression.

November 1, 2011: OFL Supports the Occupy MovementOn October 15, when the occupy movement spread across Canada, the Ontario Federation of Labour stood strongly behind it. OFL President Sid Ryan called on union members to join the movement because the goals overlapped with the labour movement.

November 1, 2011: ShitegeistIf you're the kind of person who knows there's a lot of problems in our society, and you're looking for solutions for what to do about it, there's a good chance you've found yourself here on our blog. There's also a good chance you might have come across something called the Zeitgeist Movement.

October 30, 2011: Egyptians march from Tahrir Square to support Occupy Oakland protestorsAs they vowed earlier this week to do, Egyptian pro-democracy protesters marched from Tahrir square to the U.S. Embassy today to march in support of Occupy Oakland--and against police brutality witnessed in Oakland on Tuesday night, and commonly experienced in Egypt.

October 30, 2011: Occupy the NDPThere's nothing quite like a global social movement to knock other stuff off the front pages and the Occupy movement has done just that.

October 29, 2011: Unions Say They Won't Strike with Occupy OaklandOn Thursday Occupy Oakland announced a general strike that would 'shut the city down,' but while the unions have expressed support for the political movement, labor representatives said on Friday they wouldn't be striking.

October 29, 2011: Oakland on Strike!A major victory has been won. For only the second time in Oakland's recent political history, mass action in the street has forced the hand of city government.

October 29, 2011: Democracy is the enemyThe protests on Wall Street and at St Paul's Cathedral are similar, Anne Applebaum wrote in the Washington Post, 'in their lack of focus, in their inchoate nature, and above all in their refusal to engage with existing democratic institutions'.

October 29, 2011: Postal workers occupy TD Bank on Bay StreetAn estimated 900 union and community protesters occupied the intersection of King and Bay streets in the heart of Toronto's financial district Thursday afternoon.

October 28, 2011: Occupy first. Demands come laterCritics say the Occupy cause is nebulous. Protesters will need to address what comes next - but beware a debate on enemy turf.

October 28, 2011: Occupy Everywhere...And? Problems and PossibilitiesMy initial reaction to the occupation of Wall Street was generally positive. But soon that feeling gave way to doubt and unease. I still find much hope in so many people taking to the streets but I wonder what is going on?

October 28, 2011: National Guardsman Supports Occupy Wall Street 100%An active-duty black National Guardsmen showed in uniform up in Liberty Plaza less than two days after Oakland police brutalized a U.S. marine Iraq war veteran in the crackdown on Occupy Oakland.

October 28, 2011: Revolution in the air?When said we were heading to the 'occupy' protest, the cab driver turned off the meter. He told us he came here from Iran, that he had three degrees (two from Canada) and that he had to drive a cab every single day to make ends meet.

October 25, 2011: Should Banks be a Public Utility?, Leo PanitchThe OWS movement should adopt the demand for banking in the public interest which challenges the system.

October 24, 2011: Reports of Occupy everywhereThe Occupy movement has spread from a small protest encampment in the financial district of Manhattan to a mass movement across the U.S.--and now the world--with supporters in over 1,000 cities, towns, campuses and more.

October 24, 2011: Occupy Wall Street gazetteThe Occupy! gazette traces a daily history of the OWS movement and includes pieces both on different Occupation sites and by different Occupy organizers. The gazette includes a great piece on the economics of the movement by Maliha Safri, "Globalizing Zuccotti." Available in PDF download.

October 24, 2011: Chinese leaders grow nervous about Occupy Wall StreetOn Oct. 6, Occupy Wall Street inspired some little-noticed sympathy in Zhengzhou, a city in central China's Henan province, when hundreds of pensioners and Communist Party members gathered to express their solidarity with the movement.

October 24, 2011: The Canadian 'good banks' mythThe sorry spectacle of Conservative cabinet ministers flying around the world defending banks from a tax to cover their next, inevitable, meltdown is bad enough. What is perhaps worse is that it is being largely justified by the perpetuation of the myth that Canada did not have to bail out its banks.

October 23, 2011: Occupy Wall Street and the Celebrity EconomistsThe Occupy Wall Street movement has transfixed the nation. In just a few weeks, it has spread from Manhattan to hundreds of towns and cities, and it has now taken root in other countries.

October 22, 2011: On consensusHow, then, would society make dynamic collective decisions about public affairs, aside from mere individual contracts? The only collective alternative to majority voting as a means of decision-making that is commonly presented is the practice of consensus.

October 21, 2011: Occupy! The n+1 OWS-Inspired GazetteWe've been watching the growing Occupy movements, first in New York City, then across the country and the world with awe, excitement, a dose of skepticism, and then once more awe.

October 21, 2011, Bullet No. #560: Occupy Actions: From Wall Street to a Campus Near You?, Alan SearsThe Occupy Wall Street movement and the mobilizations of the 'indignant' in Europe have sparked solidarity actions in many places around the world. October 15, 2011 was a massive day of action that included over 60 marches in Spain, a huge demonstration of over 100,000 in Rome and Occupy actions in cities and towns across North America and in many other places.

October 20, 2011: #OWS, a debate on left politics and strategySince the beginning of Occupy Wall Street, voices from across the spectrum, both friendly and otherwise, have accused it of vagueness, incoherence, and demanded it produce some kind of program for the public to inspect. At Jacobin, our concerns are slightly different. We have lamented the absence of political debate within the movement.

October 19, 2011: A victory for the outragedEric Toussaint, author of Your Money or Your Life: The Tyranny of Global Finance, looks at the significance of the October 15 international day of action.

October 19, 2011: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Propose A National ConventionWhile an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters flooded into Times Square on Saturday, there was still a regular New York general assembly at 7pm. During that meeting, Zuccotti Park General Assembly saw the formation of a new working group.

October 19, 2011, Bullet No. #558: Occupy Wall Street, the Trade Union Movement and the Fight to Stop the Cuts and Concessions, The OrganizerTens of thousands -- if not hundreds of thousands -- of people have taken to the streets over the past four weeks across the United States as part of an Occupy Wall Street movement to protest the intolerable conditions of massive unemployment, growing inequality, rampant home foreclosures, and stepped-up cuts in the social safety net.

October 18, 2011: Occupy movement: It's about timeIt's the political puzzle of our times: Why, in the wake of the most spectacular failure of free-enterprise in 80 years, was it the global right that became stronger, not the left?

October 18, 2011: 99. Dispatches from Occupy TorontoIssue No. 1 of 99, a new broadsheet covering Occupy Toronto. 99 is a media collaboration among the Toronto Media Coop and other independent media projects, which operates as an independent outlet for citizen journalism, radical media, and no-corporate coverage of the Occupy Toronto movement and its related global struggles.

October 17, 2011: On OWS and the Demobilizing Interpretation of Postwar American Protest Politics, Thomas J. AdamsMy uncle used to tell a story about when he was a member of the Communist Party-USA in the early 1950s while a student at Columbia. He had lived in an apartment just off campus with three Iranian exchange students, also communists. Coming home from the library one night, he found his three roommates in a profound state of excitement. "The revolution has begun."

October 17, 2011: Occupy goes globalElizabeth Schulte and Alan Maass report on the new reach of the Occupy movement.

October 17, 2011: The Fantastic Success of Occupy Wall StreetThe Occupy Wall Street movement - for now it is a movement - is the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968, whose direct descendant or continuation it is.

October 17, 2011, Bullet No. #557: Occupy Wall Street not Palestine!, Palestinian BDS National CommitteeThe Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, the largest Palestinian civil society coalition struggling for Palestinian rights, is proud to stand in solidarity with the movements struggling for a new world based on democracy, human rights and economic justice. From New York to Athens, from Madrid to Santiago, from Bahrain to Rome.

October 16, 2011: Demonstrations erupt over 1500 cities worldwideThousands Flood the Streets of Global Financial Centers, Capitol Cities and Small Towns to 'Occupy Together' Against Wall Street Mid-Town Manhattan Jammed as Marches Converge in Times Square.

October 16, 2011: OccupyTO - day 1OccupyTO is a movement that will start on October 15th, 2011 that intends to show our solidarity with the Occupy Wall St. movement and stand in unity with the rest of the world to seek and work towards drastic changes to economic systems that are destroying our economy, social fiber, and environment.

October 16, 2011, Bullet No. #556: The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada, Justin PodurThe Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the U.S. banks engaged in fraudulent and criminal activity and were subsequently rewarded for doing so with trillions in government funds, while their victims reaped evictions and foreclosures.

October 15, 2011: Slavoj Zizek speaks at Occupy Wall Street: TranscriptThey are saying we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall Street. They were bailed out by billions of our money. We are called socialists, but here there is always socialism for the rich.

October 15, 2011: How does Canada's 1% compare to other countries?In light of Occupy Wall Street and the spin­offs that are grow­ing in many other cities, there have been a large num­ber of excel­lent arti­cles and stud­ies going around look­ing at the top 1 per cent of income earn­ers in the United States.

October 15, 2011: Canada's billionairesJust in time for the 'Occupy Bay Street' protest this weekend, Canadian Business magazine has come out with its annual listing of the richest 100 people in Canada. So in honour of the protesters and their noble cause (demanding more attention to the 99 per cent, instead of the 1 per cent), let's peruse together the sordid details of Canada's ultra-rich.

October 15, 2011: Bank of Canada head calls Occupy protests 'entirely constructive'The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and other expressions of frustration with the global economic and financial system highlight the need for policy makers to show they are serious about forcing change, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says.

October 15, 2011: OWS: A Sign of Our Times, Judith SteinThe Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has captured the political imagination of the two parties and the media. The right-wing media has been both hysterical and sarcastic while much of the center and the left has been enthusiastic, indulgent, or gently critical.

October 14, 2011: Wall Street occupation ignites mass movement, Pham BihnThis article from a participant of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Pham Bihn, was written on October 13. The ongoing occupation at Liberty Park in New York is being threatened with forcible closure by New York authorities. The Occupy movement, however, has already spread not just around the United States, but internationally.

October 14, 2011: L.A. City Council Votes to Support #OccupyLAOccupy LA has gained the official support of the Los Angeles City Council after it unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday afternoon. It now heads to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for his approval or veto.

October 13, 2011: No Consensus On Occupy TorontoI've been really excited about the 'occupy' movement and have been watching it develop. Like many others on the 'existing left', I was one of those who argued to give it space, let it grow.

October 13, 2011: Don't just occupy Wall Street, tax itLast Wednesday, as thousands prepared to 'Occupy Wall Street' in their largest gathering to date, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told a finance industry audience in a tower high above Wall Street that he would take a leadership role in protecting them against new threats.

October 13, 2011, Bullet No. #554: From Protest to Disruption, Frances Fox PivenFrances Fox Piven has spent decades writing about and participating in social movements in the United States. She was gracious enough to sit down for an interview with Chris Maisano, a writer and activist in the New York local of Democratic Socialists of America. They discuss the Occupy Wall Street protests, the complex interplay between social movements and electoral politics, and the future of the occupation movement.

October 13, 2011: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...The 'Occupy Wall Street' protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country. So far, the protests seem fueled by a collective sense that things in our economy are not fair or right.

October 12, 2011: Stepping up the struggleGrowing numbers of people identify with the Occupy movement--and are being inspired by its example to take action for real change in society.

October 12, 2011, Bullet No. #553: Occupy Wall Street: Beyond the Rhetoric, Matthew FlisfederOne of the distinguishing features of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is its apparent lack of central leadership. Not only does the movement seem leaderless; it does not appear to be organized around any clearly defined 'demands.' This has been perceived as something quite positive for participants and supporters of the movement.

October 11, 2011: Autonomous zone on Wall Street?Doug Singsen, an activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, looks at one of the pressing questions that participants are discussing as the struggle moves forward.

October 11, 2011: It's time, nationalize the banksWhen Vancouver-based Adbusters magazine launched what has become Occupy Wall Street, the idea was that big money needed to be taken out of U.S. politics. The suggested focus was for the creation of a presidential commission to investigate corporate funding of politics, and find alternatives ways to finance election candidates.

October 11, 2011: Panic of the PlutocratsIt remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America's direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent.

October 11, 2011: OWS: The Most Important Thing in the World NowOccupy Wall Street, on the other hand, has chosen a fixed target. And you have put no end date on your presence here. This is wise. Only when you stay put can you grow roots.

October 10, 2011: Occupy movement plans to take protests to Canadian streetsJanet Conway, a Brock University professor who is the Canada research chair in social justice, said the Occupy Wall Street movement is different from many protests in recent years because its participants have eschewed uniting under a single demand.

October 9, 2011: Protesters Against Wall StreetAs the Occupy Wall Street protests spread from Lower Manhattan to Washington and other cities, the chattering classes keep complaining that the marchers lack a clear message and specific policy prescriptions.

October 9, 2011: Planning to Occupy TorontoInspired by the original sit-in in New York City, local activists met Friday to plan the October 15 Occupy Toronto Market Exchange protest.

October 7, 2011, Bullet No. #552: Occupy Wall Street: Why Bother the Bankers?, John WeeksWhen he ran for president in 1948, Harry Truman complained of the "blood-suckers of Wall Street," an unkind characterization of the upstanding bankers and financiers who manage America's money so brilliantly.

October 6, 2011: Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Occupy Wall StreetOccupy Wall Street has captured the imagination and passion of millions of Americans who have lost hope that our nation's policymakers are speaking for them. We support the protesters in their determination to hold Wall Street accountable and create good jobs.

October 6, 2011: Seeking Energy, Unions Join Protest Against Wall StreetStuart Appelbaum, an influential union leader in New York City, was in Tunisia last month, advising the fledgling labor movement there, when he received a flurry of phone calls and e-mails alerting him to the rumblings of something back home.

October 6, 2011, Bullet No. #551: The 99% Occupy Wall Street, Pham BinhThe entrapment and arrest of 700 peaceful Occupy Wall Street (OWS) activists on the Brooklyn Bridge has created a huge wave of support for their movement. The number of daytime occupants in Liberty Plaza doubled or tripled from 100 the week prior to 200-300 this past Monday and Tuesday.

October 6, 2011: Call Out to People of Color From the #OWSTo those who want to support the Occupation of Wall Street, who want to struggle for a more just and equitable society, but who feel excluded from the campaign, this is a message for you.

October 5, 2011: Anti-Wall Street protests take off thanks to a Canadian ideaSeveral thousand kilometres from the heart of the growing anti-Wall Street protests in New York, Kalle Lasn says he is astounded that an idea he and a few others hatched in Vancouver is now expanding across North America and beyond.

October 4, 2011: Occupy Boston: Day OneThe $64 trillion dollar question, 'When will Americans hit the streets like people in other countries?' has been answered.

October 4, 2011: Maybe 99 per cent is a bit much, but...The last day or two I've been seeing some complaints that the chant of the Occupy Wall Street protesters that 'We are the 99 per cent' casts the net too widely, effacing all kinds of class, race, and gender distinctions. Well, yes, probably so. But I still find it cheering.

October 3, 2011: Joseph Stiglitz and Jeff Madrick @ #occupywallstreetIt was rather amazing how this just emerged in the middle of Zuccotti park AKA LIBERTY SQUARE. The 'people's mic' check occurred, and suddenly we were listening to two important economists of our time speak to the protestors.

October 3, 2011: Declaration of the Occupation of New York CityAs we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

October 3, 2011: Occupy Toronto Market Exchange #OccupyTOIt is crucial that within these first three days we are using these scheduled slots for General Assembly to put together the most intellectual individuals to construct our future as #OccupyToronto

October 2, 2011: More than 700 arrested in Wall Street protestPolice reopened the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday evening after more than 700 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.

October 2, 2011: The Bankers and the RevolutionariesAfter flying around the world this year to cover street protests from Cairo to Morocco, reporting on the latest 'uprising' was easier: I took the subway. The 'Occupy Wall Street' movement has taken over a park in Manhattan's financial district and turned it into a revolutionary camp.

October 2, 2011: The Arab Spring Comes to Los Angeles! #OccupyLAThousands of people marched from Pershing Sq to the Los Angeles City Hall this afternoon. The shear numbers have forced the LAPD to backoff of their hardline attitude and allow us to occupy both the lawn and the sidewalk on all sides of city hall.

October 2, 2011: Occupying, and Now Publishing, TooJust before noon, Chelsea Potter stood on the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street holding a sheaf of newspapers and offering them to passers-by. 'Excuse me,' she said to a man in a tan raincoat. 'Would you like a copy of The Occupied Wall Street Journal?'

October 2, 2011: First we take ManhattanWall Street's famously chaste, humble bearing may not be the secret of its charm. When you ask what is, you begin to realise what the Right has accomplished. It has plausibly retailed something as banal as markets.

October 2, 2011: More Than 500 Arrested in Wall Street ProtestPolice reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 500 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.

October 2, 2011: Wall Street Protest Starting to Look Like Tahrir Square, EgyptNYPD police scanners are estimating a crowd up to 5,000 are occupying liberty square in a scene that is now starting to look more like Egypt's Tahrir square. The protests have become so large that Fox News has set up a live stream covering the protests. Here are some screen shots from their camera.

October 1, 2011: #OccupyWallStreetis a people powered movement for democracy that began in America on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the Spanish acampadas, we vow to end the monied corruption of our democracy ... join us!

October 1, 2011: Occupy NYPD HQ PlazaCaptured from Fox News Helicopter Cam (thanks Fox - we want to make sure the world is watching this, for what has otherwise been a shameful lack of reporting by most main stream media).

October 1, 2011: Shaking a fist at the NYPDThere was a demonstration this afternoon organized by my friends Penny Lewis and Alex Vitale, among others, in front of NYPD headquarters to object to the nasty treatment of the Occupy Wall Street protesters and years of repression of dissent in what was once a rambunctious city.

October 1, 2011: The Best Among UsThere are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history.

September 30, 2011: Airline Pilots Join "Occupy Wall Street" ProtestFor almost two weeks, protesters have been rallying in New York's financial district under the name "Occupy Wall Street." Some demonstrators have said they were against Wall Street greed, others say they are protesting global warming and still others say they are protesting 'the man.' United and Continental Airlines pilots protested an ongoing dispute with management.

September 29, 2011: The Occupy Wall Street non-agendaI'm not here to disparage Occupy Wall Street; I admire the tenacity and nerve of the occupiers, and hope it grows.

September 29, 2011: What's behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests?It's unsurprising that establishment media outlets have been condescending, dismissive and scornful of the ongoing protests on Wall Street. Any entity that declares itself an adversary of prevailing institutional power is going to be viewed with hostility by establishment-serving institutions and their loyalists.

September 29, 2011: Declaration of the Occupation of New York CityAs we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

September 26, 2011: Despite NYPD Efforts, Wall Street Stays OccupiedThe occupation of Zuccotti Park (a.k.a. Liberty Plaza Park) in Lower Manhattan, New York City, continues today, after a Saturday marked by a crackdown from the New York Police Department.

September 1, 2011: What/Who is Anonymous?To understand The Plan and the purpose it serves, it is best to first acquaint yourself with Anonymous. The question is not who is Anonymous, for we are all brothers and sisters of one single idea.

September 1, 2011: Occupy Wall Street - WikipediaOccupy Wall Street is an ongoing demonstration opposing corrupt corporate influence in U.S. politics, the influence of money and corporations on democracy and a lack of legal and political repercussions for the global financial crisis. The Canadian anti-capitalist group Adbusters initially called for the protest and was inspired by the Arab Spring movement, particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

August 1, 2011: Quick guide on group dynamics in people's assemblieshis text has been prepared by the Commission for Group Dynamics in Assemblies of the Puerta del Sol Protest Camp (Madrid). It is based on different texts and summaries which reached consensus in the internal Assemblies of this Commission (and which will be made available on the official webs of the 15th May Movement) and from the experiences gained in the General Assemblies held in this Protest Camp up until 31st May 2011.